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Ezsbc, an American embedded control solutions retailer, had produced a new development board that simplifies working with ESP32 module and makes it programmable via USB using the Arduino IDE.

The ESP32 is a low cost, ultra low power microcontroller with integrated Wi-Fi & dual-mode Bluetooth, which employs a dual-core Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microprocessor. ESP32 is created and developed by Espressif Systems for mobile devices, wearable electronics and IoT applications. It is a successor to the ESP8266 microcontroller.

Other than the ESP32 module, the board has an FTDI FT231XS USB to Serial converter, a 3.3V LDO, reset and flash switches and a multi color LED. The module can be programmed directly from the Arduino environment with 921600 bps upload speed.

It supports auto-download and will automatically be set in download mode by the downloader. Once the download is complete the board will be reset, just like a normal Arduino board.

Features of the ESP32 board:

240 MHz dual core Tensilica LX6 microcontroller with 600 DMIPS

Integrated 520 KB SRAM

Integrated 802.11BGN HT40 Wi-Fi transceiver, baseband, stack and LWIP

Integrated dual mode Bluetooth (classic and BLE)

16 MByte flash

2.2V to 3.6V operating voltage

On-board PCB antenna

3 x UARTs, including hardware flow control

3 x SPI

2 x I2S

12 x ADC input channels

2 x DAC

2 x I2C

PWM/timer input/output available on every GPIO pin

SDIO master/slave 50 MHz

Supports external SPI flash up to 16 MB

SD-card interface support

The board is available for $17 on tindie store. Datasheet, documentation, and schematics are also available there.

In this video educ8s.tv reviews the ESP32, the successor of the popular ESP8266!

Hello guys, I am Nick and welcome to educ8s.tv a channel that is all about DIY electronics projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266 and other popular boards. You can subscribe to our channel by clicking on this button. Today I am very excited because we are going to see this new board which uses the new ESP32 chip and we are going to learn how to program it using the Arduino IDE. The ESP32 chip will be the heart of most of the projects we are going to build in the near future, because it offers everything we need in one low cost solution!

The ESP-32 datasheet was released at the end of August. So let us discover the details of ESP-32 SoC.

ESP32 Connectivity

ESP32 is a single 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip available in QFN48 (6×6 mm) package. The new chip supports 802.11 b/g/n/e/i protocols with a data-rate up to 150Mbps. The previous ESP8266EX SoC supports 802.11 b/g/n only.

The security is enhanced in ESP32 by supporting WPA/WPA2/WPA2-Enterprise/Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), while ESP8266EX supports only WPA and WPA2.

ESP32 features a BT4.2 controller and host stack with Xtensa Dual-Core 32-bit LX6 microprocessors up to 240 MHz. Keep in mind that ESP8266 has single core and lacks a bluetooth transceiver.

Memory

8 KBytes SRAM in RTC, which is called RTC FAST Memory and can be used for data storage and main CPU during RTC Boot from the deep-sleep mode.

1 Kbit of EFUSE, of which 256 bits are used for the system (MAC address and chip configuration) and the remaining 768 bits are reserved for customer applications.

ESP32 runs user application from external memory just like ESP8266EX. ESP32 supports 4 x 16 MBytes of external QSPI Flash, while ESP8266EX supports up to 16 MBytes only. Could we have in the future a version of ESP32 with an internal ROM for user application like ESP8285 (the ESP8266 with internal ROM version) ?

Price And Development Tools

You can order ESP-32 SoC -the chip only not a module- for about 2.9$/unit from the Espressif store on Taobao.

Ai-Thinker, one of the third-party manufacturers of ESP modules, introduces ESP-3212 module on their Taobao store.

The demo board is currently for some beta users, and not yet officially available for public.

It has been a while from the announcement of the new SoC ESP32 from Espressif.
Recently, Espressif released the ESP-WROOM-32 module which is based on ESP32 SoC, the big brother of the well know ESP8266 WiFi module.
ESP32 is a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip with dual CPU cores and a very rich set of peripherals, ranging from capacitive touch sensors, Hall sensors, low noise sense amplifiers, SD card interface, Ethernet, high speed SDIO/SPI, UART, I2S and I2C.

Jimb0 @ sparkfun.com takes a first look on the new ESP32 WiFi board by Espressif that’s an improvement of the ESP8266 board.

The ESP32 doesn’t replace the ESP8266, but it does improve on it in every aspect. Not only does it have WiFi support, but it also features a Bluetooth 4.2 radio, making it even more versatile. The CPU is similar to the ESP8266 – it’s a 32-bit Xtensa® LX6, but the ESP32 has two cores! There’s also 128KB of ROM and 416KB SRAM, but Flash memory (for program and data storage) is still left up to an external chip (up to 64MB).

Alasdair Allan @ makezine.com discuss about a new IoT board released from the company that makes the ESP8266.

The ESP8266 chip, and the boards based around it, have been the new hot new thing this past year. Overnight it became — almost by stealth — one of the leading platforms for the Internet of Things. This runaway success quickly gathered a community, and it’s possible Espressif Systems may repeat that next year with their new ESP32 chip.

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